I am but moments away from running out of the door, laden with all the necessary paraphernalia for finding one’s way around a science festival (city map, festival programme, Percy Pigs).

British Sci Fest 2013 is but a mere 4 ½ hour train ride away, and the prospect of wandering around Aberdeen for 7 days is made only the more exciting by the prospect of bumping in to some of the UK’s best and brightest scientists whilst doing so!

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More (vaguely scientific) reasons to be excited:

The British Science Festival is one of Europe’s largest celebrations of science, engineering and technology! Thousands of people will be attending workshops, plays, exhibitions and lectures across the city over the next week.

Aberdeen is apparently nicknamed the ‘granite city’. Sounds like somewhere a geologist might grow to love…

And according to those lovely people at Wikipedia ‘Aberdeen is (climatically) far milder than one might expect for its northern location’. Hurrah! I might have a summer after all…